Evidence of Evolution

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  Michael Windelspecht

  

  700,000-Year-Old Stone Tools Point to Mysterious Human Relative

  National Geographic - Michael Greshko

  Someone butchered a rhinoceros in the Philippines hundreds of thousands of years before modern humans arrived—but who? Stone tools found in the Philippines predate the arrival of modern humans to the islands by roughly 600,000 years—but researchers aren’t sure who made them. The eye-popping …

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  Michael Windelspecht

  

  Ravens Are Evolving, and Not in the Way You'd Expect

  National Geographic - Jason Bittel

  Instead of branching into new species, raven groups experienced something called "speciation reversal." A new study shows that the common raven is anything but commonplace in its evolution. Using DNA samples taken from ravens for nearly twenty years, the study provides evidence that common ravens on …

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  Michael Windelspecht

  

  Humans Were Not Smarter Than Neanderthals, We Simply Outlasted Them

  ScienceAlert - SARAH KAPLAN

  By the standards of the Paleolithic age, members of Homo neanderthalensis were the height of sophistication. These ancient hominins ranged across …

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  Michael Windelspecht

  

  Sex, disease, and extinction: what ancient DNA tells us about humans and Neanderthals

  The Verge - Rachel Becker

  Two new genetic analyses help explain the unexpected roles Neanderthals play in modern human life — influencing everything from hair color to mental health. The new research also adds to evidence that Neanderthals lived in small, isolated communities, while a third study suggests that early modern …

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  Michael Windelspecht

  

  How Do Darwin's Finches Change Their Beak Sizes So Quickly?

  Forbes - GrrlScientist

  Epigenetics may be how Darwin’s finches rapidly change their beak size and shape in response to sudden environmental changes, such as drought or human disturbance, in the absence of gene mutations Seeing this gradation and diversity of structure in one small, intimately related group of birds, one …